A few weeks after the Yankees won their 27th championship, Curtis Granderson arrived from Detroit and projections were for him to be a center fielder with 30 home runs.

There was no reason to not expect it.

He hit that many playing half of his games in a pitcher-friendly park in Detroit and combined with a lefty-friendly right field porch at Yankee Stadium, there seemed little doubt Granderson would hit more than 10 home runs here.

Numbers often do not tell the whole story and the most home runs by Granderson at any professional level were achieved with a flawed swing.

The combination of struggling to get timing back from a DL stint and the poor mechanics, Granderson was hitting .245 a month ago, a figure that dropped to .240 through August 9. That was when Granderson went 0-for-4, a